Venus figurines by Bouret

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Not exactly true to the original drawing of a Venus figurine by Bouret (Siberia)

In the Venus figurines of Bouret is five Stone Age representations of the female body. Four of the figurines are made of mammoth ivory, one of serpentine . The age of the figurines is given as 23,000 to 22,000 years. The statuettes thus come from the Gravettia . They are between 4.3 and 12.2 cm tall. Three of the sculptures have suggested facial features.

The sculptures were found by Alexey Pavlovich Okladnikov (1908–1981) between 1936 and 1940. Bouret (Russia, Siberia) is located about 15 km north of the Paleolithic site of Malta on the banks of the Upper Angara , which flows into Lake Baikal . The so-called Venus figurines of Malta were found there. The figurines of both sites are stylistically similar.

See also

literature

  • Zoya Abramova: L'Art paléolithique d'Europe orientale et de Sibérie. Jérôme Millon, Grenoble 1995.
  • Robert G. Bednarik : An overview of Asian palaeoart of the Pleistocene. IFRAO Congress, September 2010 - Symposium: Pleistocene art of Asia (Pre-Acts) 2010,
  • VG Childe: Cave Men's Buildings. In: Antiquity. Volume 24, Number 93, 1950, pp. 4-11.
  • G. Clark: The Stone Age Hunters. McGraw-Hill, 1967.
  • Claudine Cohen: La femme des origines. Images of the femme in the prehistoire occidentale. Belin-Herscher, Paris 2003.
  • Henri Delporte : L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique. Paris 1979.
  • Michail Michailowitsch Gerassimow : The Paleolithic site of Malta: excavations of 1956-1958 . In EN Michael (Ed.): The Archeology and Geomorphology of Northern Asia. No. 5, 1964, pp. 3-32, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Toronto (Translations from Russian Sources).
  • Jan Jelinek : The great lexicon of images of man in prehistoric times. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh 1972.
  • O. Soffer, M. Adovasio, D. Hyland: Reply to 'More on the Venus Figurines'. In: Current Anthropology . 42, 3, June 2001, pp. 410-412.

Web links

  • The Mal'ta - Buret 'venuses and culture in Siberia - on donsmaps.com

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henri Delporte: L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique. Paris 1979, p. 202 ff.